Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:10:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I suspect most Debian developers leave DEBEMAIL set all the time.  I
>> certainly do.  If setting that variable causes pbuilder/cowbuilder to
>> produce erroneous *.changes files, we probably should fix that bug,
>> since otherwise this is going to affect a ton of people.

> I presume there's a misunderstanding here. My wording above was too
> generic: the bug is caused when the DEBEMAIL variable *of*
> */etc/pbuilderrc* is set to something else than the empty string. That
> variable, AFAICT, has nothing to do with the environment variable having
> the same name.

pbuilder is just a bunch of shell scripts.  Doesn't it inherit your
environment variables?  Hm, I suppose the trip through sudo that most
people do probably fixes that.

I still think pbuilder is using the wrong flag, but yeah, that makes it
much less prevelant.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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